Company record
LightSprint
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
LightSprint is a software factory where PMs, designers and ops direct AI agents on the real codebase while engineering controls every merge. lightsprint.ai
Funding
- $6.1 million Seed, announced October 13, 2026. Led by 645 Ventures. January Capital, Y Combinator, Rebel Fund and others participated. Listed in the AI startup funding roster for October 12–17, 2026. Sources: LightSprint announcement, Business Insider.
Of the 84 Seed rounds with exactly stated amounts in dollars on Presspool's weekly rosters since September 21, 2026, LightSprint's $6.1 million is the 49th largest; their median is $7.2 million.
Whether AI names LightSprint
- On the AI coding map: named or cited in 2 of 53 answers to Presspool's AI coding questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 1 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 1 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 5). See the map. Of the 32 companies on the map, LightSprint ranked joint 15th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on AI coding questions: Cursor (39 of 53), Cognition (27 of 53), Replit (19 of 53), Lovable (14 of 53) and Cline (13 of 53). Most often named in the same answers: CodeRabbit (2), Cognition (2), Emergent (2), Factory (2), Greptile (1).
- Machine Relations Index: Not cited in any Machine Relations Index answer, May 10, 2026 to October 24, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited LightSprint in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI coding questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | AI coding |
|---|---|
| September 28, 2026 | 0 of 56 |
| October 5, 2026 | 0 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 1 of 52 |
| October 19, 2026 | 1 of 53 |
| October 26, 2026 | 2 of 55 |
| November 2, 2026 | 2 of 53 |
Related records
Also on the AI coding map: Anything, Augment Code, Bilt, Bolt.new, Builder.io, Cline, CodeRabbit, Cognition, Cursor, Emergent, Factory, Greptile and 19 more on the map.
Closest rounds in the roster for October 12–17, 2026: Dapta ($6 million Seed, October 13, 2026), Pathways ($6 million Seed, October 13, 2026), Homa ($5 million Seed, October 15, 2026), Shamrock AI ($5 million Seed, October 15, 2026), Marklo ($5 million Seed, October 14, 2026), Uvi ($7.5 million Seed, October 14, 2026).
Y Combinator, named as an investor in this round, led BioStack ($9.5 million Seed, October 22, 2026). It is also named as an investor in Tractian ($130M Series D, October 22, 2026), Firstwork ($15 million Series A, October 21, 2026), Minicor ($3.8 million Seed, October 14, 2026), Readily ($11 million Series A, October 13, 2026), Flai ($27 million Series A, October 6, 2026), Vitalize ($31 million Series A, October 6, 2026), Ocular AI ($2 million Pre-seed, October 5, 2026) and Revnu ($3 million, round type not disclosed, October 1, 2026).